[6] The hamlet, which is described variously as "scattered" due to the dispersed nature of the farms and dwellings, is adjacent to the B6259 road and is quite close to the Settle–Carlisle line.

[14] The hamlet's location on the border between the two counties of Yorkshire and Cumbria meant that sometimes services were shared out, with the bins being regularly emptied by the South Lakeland Council in the 1980s.

[17] In the 21st century, the hamlet straddles the boundary of the parishes of Hawes and High Abbotside, in the Upper Dales electoral division, and is represented at Westminster as part of the Richmond Constituency.

[22] The chapel was originally a daughter church to that at Aysgarth, some 16 miles (26 km) to the east,[23] and was renovated in 1894 at a cost of £92 (equivalent to £13,000 in 2023).

[24] It possesses a small graveyard, and the dead from nearby Cotterdale, were brought over the hill on the northern edge of the River Ure to Lunds for funerals.

[31] One of those buried in the small graveyard is John Blades, who was born in Lunds, but left in 1773 for London with only half a crown in his pocket.